This paper apply personas to explore and analyze the highly regulated and (seemingly) uniform work practice of police officers. Historically, many information systems and information technology applications for the police has failed to meet the requirements of officers working in the field. It is claimed that a richer understanding of the practice outside the police station can result in more s...

Racial disparities in policing and recent high-profile incidents resulting in the deaths of Black men have ignited a national debate on policing policies. Given evidence that both police officers and Black men may be associated with threat, we examined the impact of perceived threat on support for reformed policing policies. Across three studies we found correlational evidence that perceiving p...

Across different countries, there is extreme heterogeneity among police systems concerning the number and types of forces, their links to political authorities territorial organisation control centres, oversight mechanisms, agents’ status, behaviours. This observed despite apparent similarity between various functions assigned such as law enforcement, crowd control, peacekeeping, border protect...

Available online 21 February 2011 Purpose: Theories of procedural justice have facilitated the development of a process-based approach to policing which emphasizes the fairness of the manner in which the police exercise their discretion. The study examines whether procedurally fair behavior by the police affects two types of citizen behavior during encounters: citizen disrespect toward the poli...